Mormonism

The religious and social system of the Latter-day Saints; so
called from their gospel, termed The Book of Mormon. Joe Smith,
the founder of the system,. was born in Sharon, Windsor county,
Vermont; his partner was Rigdon. The manuscript, which he declared to
be written on gold plates, was a novel written by Spalding. He was
cited thirty-nine times into courts of law, and was at last
assassinated by a gang of ruffians, who broke into his prison at
Carthage, and shot him like a dog. His wife's name was Emma; he lived
at Nauvoo, in Illinois; his successor was Brigham Young, a carpenter by
trade, who led the “Saints” (as the Mormons are called), driven from
home by force, to the valley of the Salt Lake, 1,500 miles distant,
generally called Utah, but by the Mormons themselves Deseret (Bee-country), the New Jerusalem. Abraham is their model man, and
Sarai their model woman, and English their language. Young's house was
called the
Bee-hive. Every man, woman, and child capable of work has work to
do in the community.